“Idiot Box” by Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory

"Idiot Box" comes from Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory, her seventh album and the first she made with her band the Attachment Theory, released through Jagjaguwar in February 2025. It's a group effort to the core: the writing credit is split between Van Etten, Jorge Balbi, Devin Hoff, Kristina Lieberson and Charley Damski, and the band shares production with Van Etten and Marta Salogni, who also mixed it.

Van Etten sings lead and plays guitar alongside Alex Reeve, Balbi is on drums, Hoff on bass and Teeny Lieberson on synthesizer, with Reeve and Lieberson adding backing vocals. The album, a rock record through and through, followed We've Been Going About This All Wrong and drew universal acclaim by Metacritic's count, a weighted 83 out of 100.

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